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9.4

Pantone color keeps changing on me

Asked by zebada in Adobe Photoshop

Tags: pantone, 288c, rgb

I am creating a Photoshop document (Photoshop CS V8.0) and I am setting the color of various elements (Text, custom shapes and blending options) to "Pantone Solid Coated 288C".
After I save my document and reopen it the 288C colors have all been changed to "Pantone Solid Coated 534C"

Any idea why this occurs, and how can I keep the 288C color?

P.S. My knowledge/experience of CMYK is only 24 hours old - I had submitted a job to a printer in RGB and the job came back with all the wrong colors. A brutal introduction to the notion that that is more than one color space and RGB does not translate (automatically) well into CMYK. (Especially blacks - all my blacks are now K=100% blacks)
So if you fell the need to explain even the most basic/trivial things in regards to RGB and CMYK - I won't be offended.

Anyway the printer said I should change everything into Pantone colors. We sat down and selected the colors from swatches. One color we selected (that closely matches the RGB colors I am using) was "Pantonce Solid Coated 288C" but I cannot get that color to stay set in the document.
What am I doing wrong?  (Ok, so I'm designing my own artwork - that's my first mistake) :(

Is there some setting somewhere that tells Photoshop that my output device (printer) does not allow 288C? (I do get a gamut warning when using 288C). I really don't care whether or not my printer (Minolta QMS color laser) can print that color or not, since the job is going directly to a screen printer to be printed.

Regards
Paul
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